For the last couple years, Pei was my favorite cash back app.

After you installed it and linked your cards, you’d earn automatic extra cash back at 100,000 places where you were already spending money.

And this was on top of the credit card rewards you’re already earning! But then it changed significantly for the worse. Read on to see what sucks now and my top Pei app alternatives.

As a new parent, I’m constantly trying to figure out the best way to educate our little hustler about business, entrepreneurship, and money.

And while he’s a few years away from the proverbial lemonade stand on the sidewalk, let me use that as inspiration for this post.

The beauty of these side hustle ideas is that many don’t require a huge initial investment or even necessarily a highly specialized skill-set. And certainly, not all qualify as “business ideas,” but each has the potential to earn you money in your spare time.

Is there really such thing as free money? Well, it depends on what you consider “free.”

Money is almost always an exchange for value. But over the past few years, I’ve discovered a bunch of ways to make extra money with very little effort.

We’ll call it “almost free” money.